Brad Lawrence and Peter Aguero in Cats!
As a writer, Brad has penned three screenplays currently in the hands of film studios, one of which, The Boarding House, has gone into pre-production with a projected 2010 release date. He has also had short fiction published by The Brooklyn Rail, UprightDown.com, and The Neshui Press, who later released his novella, Revelation Decoy, in its own volume. In addition, he has written for several independent theater and film productions for festivals and showcases around the country.
As a stage performer, he premiered his solo show, Monsters In The Wood, at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim and was one of six shows to be awarded an extension at the festival’s close. After a successful run at The SoHo Playhouse, he went on to perform the show at theaters around the country and as a guest artist of The Wadleigh High School of Performing and Visual Arts in Harlem. He is also a much sought after stand-up, improvisational sketch comic, and MC on New York’s growing Nouveau Burlesque scene appearing at such shows as Hotsy Totsy Burlesque, Original Cyn, Kitty Nights, The Leg’s Malone Show, The Coney Island Museum and Sideshow, Indie Girl’s Burlesque, and will be featured in a photo essay book documenting the genre’s rise to be released in 2010. Brad has also worked as an actor in more than a dozen independent and short films, several stage plays (including lead turns in Tennessee William’s Summer And Smoke and Kenneth Lonegan’s Lobby Hero), and is a graduate of The Studio Theater Actor’s Conservatory in Washington DC.
Brad Lawrence was born in rural Missouri, but, thanks to the intriguing pictures shown on television, he did not stay there. After fleeing the desolation of his hometown, he arrived in Washington DC in search of the artist’s life. A decision that was not particularly well thought out. Eventually realizing that he had aimed nearly five hundred miles too far south, he relocated to New York City where his ambitions were much more appreciated. He has also slept in a closet in Chicago, been dumped in Budapest, and accidentally drove a dressed up go-cart from Nice to Cannes. On the highway. Then there was a screaming match with a cabbie in Egypt. And a brush with illegal currency exchanges in Istanbul. That went badly. And there was an incident on a train in Vienna that is a long story and was not at all his fault, anyway. Through out all of this, Brad has learned one very valuable lesson: Everything you see on TV is true.
Brad Lawrence is one of New York City’s rising talents in the burgeoning world of live storytelling. A Moth Storyslam winner, and one of the few to achieve that distinction on his first appearance, he is also the only storyteller to win back to back Moth GrandSLAMS. He has also been a guest intro performer for The Moth’s outreach program to schools and institutional communities. He is a regular at such shows as The Liar’s Show, Speakeasy Stories, Seth Lind’s Told, The Risk Podcast, as well as How I Learned at Happy Endings and the show he co-produces with his wife, Stories At The Creek, both of which have garnered him mentions in The New York Times.
As a writer, Brad has penned three screenplays currently in the hands of film studios, one of which, The Boarding House, has gone into pre-production with a projected 2010 release date. He has also had short fiction published by The Brooklyn Rail, UprightDown.com, and The Neshui Press, who later released his novella, Revelation Decoy, in its own volume. In addition, he has written for several independent theater and film productions for festivals and showcases around the country.
As a stage performer, he premiered his solo show, Monsters In The Wood, at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim and was one of six shows to be awarded an extension at the festival’s close. After a successful run at The SoHo Playhouse, he went on to perform the show at theaters around the country and as a guest artist of The Wadleigh High School of Performing and Visual Arts in Harlem. He is also a much sought after stand-up, improvisational sketch comic, and MC on New York’s growing Nouveau Burlesque scene, appearing at such shows as Hotsy Totsy Burlesque, Original Cyn, Kitty Nights, The Leg’s Malone Show, The Coney Island Museum and Sideshow, Indie Girl’s Burlesque, and will be featured in a photo essay book documenting the genre’s rise-to be released in 2010. Brad has also worked as an actor in more than a dozen independent and short films, several stage plays (including lead turns in Tennessee William’s Summer And Smoke and Kenneth Lonegan’s Lobby Hero), and is a graduate of The Studio Theater Actor’s Conservatory in Washington DC.
Brad Lawrence was born in rural Missouri, but, thanks to the intriguing pictures shown on television, he did not stay there. He went to Washington DC in search of the artist’s life (or he followed a girl). A decision that was not particularly well thought out. Eventually, realizing that he had aimed nearly five hundred miles too far south, he relocated to New York City where his ambitions were much more appreciated. He has also slept in a closet in Chicago, been dumped in Budapest, and accidentally drove a dressed up go-cart from Nice to Cannes. On the highway. Then there was a screaming match with a cabbie in Egypt. And a brush with illegal currency exchanges in Istanbul. That went badly. And there was an incident on a train in Vienna that is a long story and was not at all his fault, anyway. Through out all of this, Brad has learned one very valuable lesson: Everything you see on TV is true.
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